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October 2, 2003
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I have been trying to find a good analogy to help people understand the true value of p2p. Here's what I have so far:
In Sydney today there are water restrictions. Water is a resource that people need to survive and it is critical that society manages supply and demand so that we never run out.
Computing power (storage, processing and bandwidth) is increasingly becoming a necessity to conduct our lives and as a society we need to ensure that we are taking technology in a direction where we cannot run out of the resource.
When my neighbor over-waters his garden today, he is over-using a resource that we all share and allowing me to use less. If there were P2P water, the more he watered his garden, the more water would be available to me. The act of watering creates water.
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October 2, 2003 | Filed under:
I have been trying to find a good analogy to help people understand the true value of p2p. Here's what I have so far:
In Sydney today there are water restrictions. Water is a resource that people need to survive and it is critical that society manages supply and demand so that we never run out.
Computing power (storage, processing and bandwidth) is increasingly becoming a necessity to conduct our lives and as a society we need to ensure that we are taking technology in a direction where we cannot run out of the resource.
When my neighbor over-waters his garden today, he is over-using a resource that we all share and allowing me to use less. If there were P2P water, the more he watered his garden, the more water would be available to me. The act of watering creates water.
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